19 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks on Gaza, Including Aid Seekers

Watan-Nineteen Palestinians, including individuals seeking humanitarian aid, were martyred early Friday in a series of Israeli airstrikes and attacks across the Gaza Strip, amid a genocide that has continued for over 21 months.

Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that the number of Palestinians killed in massacres committed by the Israeli army—through shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza—rose from 3 to 19, after 16 people were killed during the morning hours alone.

In the latest incident, 8 Palestinians were killed and others injured in a new massacre carried out by Israeli forces who targeted a group of civilians walking near Shaaban Al-Rais School in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

Simultaneously, the Israeli navy shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman and wounded another while they were working off the coast of Al-Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City.

In central Gaza, one Palestinian was killed and 43 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting civilians waiting for food aid near the Israeli-American aid distribution center in the Netzarim corridor area.

In Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, a medical source said Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and injured others by opening fire on people gathered near a food aid center in the southern part of the city.

Overnight and into early Friday, Israeli forces killed 7 Palestinians in Khan Younis, including:

• 3 people in a tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of the city

• 3 civilians in two separate airstrikes targeting gatherings

• 1 person killed by artillery shelling in the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood

These attacks are part of a relentless and systematic campaign that has caused tens of thousands of casualties across Gaza.